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Let's try that with goats :)

> While sheep are considered the gold star for solar because they don’t jump on panels, goats have long been used for utility and pipeline maintenance and perimeter maintenance (or maintaining vegetation around the borders of a site) in countries like France.

From a 2020 article on the topic. Sorry goats, you are not the "gold standard" here.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/sheep-ag-and-sun-agrivoltai...

Put the wiring in PVC pipe, and make sure the panel's junction box wires are secured tightly inside the inner folds (or use products that secure them).

While goats will eat just about anything, I think they were referencing their compulsive need to climb everything in their pen.

> 'Cause baby, there ain't no mountain high enough

> Ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough

> To keep me from getting to you, baby

-- Goats

I read something somewhere (the curse of wide reading) that it’s a myth that goats will eat anything which came as a shock to me because as a child in the 70s I learned (from adults or books or cartoons or who knows what?) that a goat would eat a tin can given the opportunity.

Goats nibble everything, but thats just like us feeling things with our hands.

they've only got teeth on the lower jaw in front; they can tear stuff up with their back teeth but they have to get it in their mouths.

They tend to have this thing about strings and string-like things, they start swallowing and do not want to stop. instinct tells them vines must have good stuff just a little further along. loose wires are bad for goats and vice versa

I mean it's free cleaning

I lived out in the country and our neighbor down the road got several goats. Every day I would drive past and he would have 3 goats on top of his Subaru outback. He built a new barn to park the car in because he got tired of the dents.

You know they're going to eat the PVC pipe.

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